FEALTY TO NEW KING
NOTABLE CEREMONY IN JUGOSLAVIA United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BELGRADE, December 16. Sixty thousand reservists, aged 21 to 55, rent the air with cheers when, after assembling on the parade ground, they took the oath of loyalty to King Peter. The capital and all towns are denuded of male inhabitants and transport vehicles because every member of the 2,000,000 reserve forces throughout the country simultaneously swore fealty, priests of six different religions administering the oath in Belgrade. The Regent, Prince Paul, in the presence of a vast concourse subsequently opened the Reparations Bridge across the Danube between the Belgrade suburb of Zemun, and christened it the Alexander Bridge, in honour of the martyred King. Jugo-Slavs completed half the structure after 1932, when German provision of materials under the reparations clause ceased.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19985, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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136FEALTY TO NEW KING Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19985, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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